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TIL about Togo the lead sled dog for musher Leonhard Seppala during the 1925 Serum Run to deliver much needed diphtheria medicine to Nome, Alaska. He took a longer (261 miles) and riskier route than other lead dog but his efforts were overshadowed by Balto, the lead dog for the final leg (53 miles).

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